Tuesday, January 14, 2003

A policeman has died in a raid on a flat in Manchester which at this point (you learn to say this in these cases) is linked to the Ricin find in a flat in London last week. In normal times such news would stop you dead, yet life went on last week and will go on again. It's hard to fathom why, given if one had said three years' ago that such events would happen in one week I think there would be general agreement that it would shake the core of British society.